WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
Dear colleagues,
Just a reminder that the final date for those wishing to register for the
conference at the University of Birmingham on 'The Two Unifications
of Germany' on 19-21 September is FRIDAY, 23 AUGUST.
The slightly revised conference programme is posted below. Further
information and a registration form can be downloaded from the
website http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/unifications/.
Colleagues may also wish to attend a reading by Friedrich Christian
Delius from Die Birnen von Ribbeck, which will take place at 8.30pm
on Friday, 20th September in the European Research Institute,
Pritchatts Road, on the University of Birmingham campus. The
reading is open to all, free of charge, including those who are not
attending the conference.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.
With best wishes,
Elystan Griffiths
--
Dr Elystan Griffiths,
Department of German Studies,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
B15 2TT.
0121 414 6178
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The Two Unifications of Germany: A Comparative Analysis
International Conference at the European Research Institute, University
of Birmingham
Thursday, 19th to Saturday, 21st September 2002
THURSDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2002
19.00 Conference dinner
FRIDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2002
9.00 Plenary session
Introductory lecture:
Johannes Paulmann (Bremen)
10.50 Coffee
11.10 Parallel sessions
a) Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt), 'The Structure of German
National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871'
James Retallack (Toronto), 'Regions and Rights: Anticipating the
Bismarckian Errata'
b) Jonathan Grix (Birmingham), 'East German Distinctiveness in
Unified Germany?'
Laurence McFalls (Montreal), 'Illegitimate Unions?'
c) Rolf Parr (Dortmund), 'Identität in der Differenz. Kollektivsymbolik
und Interdiskursivität der zwei deutschen Vereinigungen'
Manfred Durzak (Paderborn), 'Ingo Schulze und Michael
Kumpfmüller. Der Roman der deutschen Wende'
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Tour of the Barber Institute Art Gallery
15.10 Coffee
15.30-17.20 Parallel sessions
a) Elystan Griffiths (Birmingham), 'Provincialism, Periphery and the
Heroic Outsider: German Unification in the Works of Spielhagen,
Heyse and Freytag'
John Osborne (Warwick), 'Theodor Fontane: Post-war novelist'
b) Corey Ross (Birmingham), 'Historians, Unification, and the New
National Paradigm'
Karoline von Oppen (Bath), 'From the 'Vielvölkerstaat
Bundesrepublik' [1980] to 'Das Gelobte Land' [2000]: [West] German
Journals and Unification'
c) Maiken Umbach (Manchester), 'Was German federalism different?
Constitutions, courts and the cityscape in Hamburg and Barcelona in
the later nineteenth century'
Abigail Green (Oxford), 'How did German federalism shape
unification?'
18.30 Dinner.
20.30 Reading by Friedrich Christian Delius from his novel
'Die Birnen von Ribbeck' followed by discussion
SATURDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2002
9.00 Plenary session
16.10-18.00 Plenary session
Ronald Speirs (Birmingham), 'Deutsche Reichsgründung und deutsche
Literatur'
Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon), 'Culture Critique and the Two
Unifications'
10.50 Coffee
11.10 Parallel sessions
a) Michael Butler (Birmingham), 'Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser,
Wolf: Reflections on the Process of Unification'
Jan-Werner Müller (Oxford), 'On Constitutional Patriotism'
b) Erwin Fink (Toronto), 'For Country, Court and Church: The
Patriots' Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German
Unification'
Simon Green (Birmingham), 'Unification and post-1990 Bavarian
identities'
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Plenary session
John Breuilly (Birmingham), 'Nationalism in the first German
unification'
Mary Fulbrook (UCL), 'Nationalism in the second German unification'
15.30 Coffee
15.50-c. 17.15 Round table and closing address
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